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Mission
The mission of the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group is to clarify and formalize the relevant standards landscape. In particular:
- to determine how spatial information can best be integrated with other data on the Web;
- to determine how machines and people can discover that different facts in different datasets relate to the same place, especially when 'place' is expressed in different ways and at different levels of granularity;
- to identify and assess existing methods and tools and then create a set of best practices for their use;
where desirable, to complete the standardization of informal technologies already in widespread use.
Read the charter and join the Working Group.
Deliverables
Variations to the timeline are reported here
Use Cases & Requirements
First PWD published by OGC and W3C 23 July 2015. Second PWD published on December 17 2015. Third and final PWD planned for August 2016.
Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices
Second PWD published 19 January 2016, next PWD planned for July 2016.
OWL Time Ontology
FPWD planned for before end July, possibly end June 2016.
Semantic Sensor Network Ontology
FPWD published 31 May 2016. Next planned for shortly after TPAC, ie late September 2016
Coverage in Linked Data
Regular work on this has ramped up in March 2016. FPWD proposed for October 2016.
Work in Progress
- github index for all deliverables
- Use Cases & Requirements
- Latest published version
- Editor's Draft
- Working Use Cases
- Scope questions and Requirements
- Spreadsheet collating Reqs from UCs
- UC References
- UC Wish List
- Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices
- Latest published version
- Editor's draft
- how to work with GitHub
- Notes for Context
- BP Principles
- BP References
- BP Wish List
- BP Requirements
- BP Consolidation
- BP Consolidated Narratives
- BP Structure Examples
- BP Theme - Linking Data
- BPs to hand over to other WGs in W3C or OGC
- BP Spatial Data Formats
- BP_Narrative - and a second version that provides tangible examples: BP Narrative 2
- BP consolidation proposal - merging closely related best practices and aligning with DWBP
- An agreed spatial ontology
- ISO 19115 - DCAT - Schema.org mapping
- OWL Time Ontology
- 2006 draft
- Latest published draft (2016-07-12)
- Editor's draft
- Time References
- Time Wish List
- Time Issues and Notes
- Latest Published Version
- Editor's draft
- how to work with GitHub for ssn
- Proposals for rewriting SSN
- SSN Tasks
- SSN References
- SSN Wish List
- Editors' draft
- Issue Tracker
- Glossary of terms
- Ontology Design Principles
- Technology Talks
- Coordinate Reference Systems
- Spatial Data Formats Catalog
Infrastructure & Contacts
The WG's main communication channel is its mailing list. This is publicly archived but only WG members may post to it.
You are welcome to send comments to the WG through the public comment mailing list [archive]
The WG creates and maintains editors' drafts in its GitHub Repository.
WG co-chairs: Kerry Taylor, Australian National University, and Ed Parsons, Google
Team contacts: Phil Archer (W3C), Scott Simmons (OGC)
You can contact the chairs and team directly via <team-sdw-chairs@w3.org>
Meetings
See the separate Meetings page for links to agendas, minutes, dial in details etc.
Fourth Face to face meeting : W3C TPAC, Lisbon, on Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th September.
The WG is expected to hold face to face meetings twice a year, typically at OGC TC meetings and W3C TPAC.
See also the program of Technology Talks
Advice for the group
- See the csv on the web group for best practice use case style and wiki style
Publications, Presentations, Media about the Working Group
- K Taylor, E Parsons, Where Is Everywhere: Bringing Location to the Web Internet Computing, IEEE 19 (2), 83-87 2015
- Three part blog about the SDWWG by Frans: http://www.geodan.com/spatial-data-web/
